1927-00-00: (La Revue Indigène Founded, the Literary Journal That Launched the Indigenous Movement and Declared That Haitian Culture Should Be Rooted in Afri…

1927-00-00: (La Revue Indigène Founded, the Literary Journal That Launched the Indigenous Movement and Declared That Haitian Culture Should Be Rooted in African and Creole Traditions): In 1927, La Revue Indigène: Les Arts et la Vie was founded, the literary journal that became the vehicle for Haiti’s Indigenous Movement. The journal’s contributors argued that Haitian literature and art should draw from African and Creole traditions. Published during the American occupation, the journal was an act of cultural resistance: while the Marines controlled Haiti’s ports, roads, and finances, Haitian intellectuals asserted sovereignty over the nation’s identity. The Indigenous Movement laid the intellectual groundwork for the Noirisme philosophy that would dominate Haitian political thought for the next three decades, a philosophy that François Duvalier would eventually weaponize into a justification for dictatorship.